City report · Punjab, Pakistan
Shakargarh Air quality today
Air quality in Shakargarh currently reads AQI 161 (Unhealthy): Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Air quality right now
AQI 161
Unhealthy
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 75.1
- tree cover
- 14.9%
- trees in this area
- 46.8K
- more trees needed
- 78.9K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Shakar Garh, Pakistan (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 13, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Shakargarh · AQI 161 (Unhealthy)
Shakargarh's tree count comes to 46,810 trees across 12.57 km², 25 points below the 40% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 78,854 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Shakargarh today: AQI 161, Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 65 km, e.g. Pasrūr and Jammu
Health signal
Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
PM2.5
75.1
PM10
34.7
NO₂
13.0
O₃
96.0
SO₂
4.2
CO
438.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it
- Windows
- Keep them closed
- Mask
- Wear an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shakargarh's daily AQI at 110 on average, from 95 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 162 on Nov 10.
Where Shakargarh stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Shakargarh: Critically low
14.9% tree cover against a 40% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
46,810
Target trees
125,664
More trees needed
78,854
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,735 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Shakargarh lost?
There was almost no forest around Shakargarh in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
2017: satellite photo from June 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA, Global Forest Change (GFC-2025-v1.13); causes: WRI/Google DeepMind drivers of forest loss; both CC BY 4.0, summed by Airleaf for each area. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Shakargarh right now?
The latest reading for Shakargarh shows an AQI of 161 (Unhealthy), observed Nov 11, 16:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 65 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Everyone should limit long outdoor exertion; sensitive groups more so.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Shakargarh today?
At AQI 161 (Unhealthy): everyone should cut down long or hard exercise; sensitive groups should avoid it. Windows: keep them closed. Masks: wear an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Shakargarh been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shakargarh's daily AQI at 110 on average, from 95 on Nov 7 to an hourly peak of 162 on Nov 10. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Shakargarh lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Shakargarh in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
What is the tree count in Shakargarh?
Shakargarh has an estimated 46,810 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 14.9% tree cover, 25 percentage points short of the 40% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Shakargarh need?
Shakargarh needs roughly 78,854 more trees to close a 25-point shortfall against its 40% tree-cover target — about 1,735 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Shakargarh's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality comes from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where one reports nearby, and otherwise, as here, from the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, which may differ from street-level monitors. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Shakar Garh; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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